RE: Better than POTS telecommunications conference service.

["Leo Donnelly" <>]

Harvard would be interested in puchasing some phones for trials. We're 
currently testing sip phones from two vendors today. 

Leo,




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Leo D. Donnelly, Jr                     Senior Technical Analyst
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On Behalf Of Walt Magnussen
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:04 AM
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 Debra Duncan; Lance Parr;
Mark Herro; 

Subject: Better than POTS telecommunications conference service.


Work group members,
    

    Ben Teitelbaum from UCAID has been working with Colombia University
on the development of a better than POTS audio conference bridge.  This
bridge would use SIP as the communications protocol and could use the
GIPS codec for the audio.  GIPS is a liscenced codec that provides 7 Khz
audio as opposed to the standard G.711 codec that provides 3KHz audio.

    We have an opportunity to have a vendor add the GIPs codec to an
existing SIP phone if we can show the need.  We are proposing to install
one conf bridge at Colombia and possibly one conf bridge at TAMU to be
used for Internet2 Work Group audio conferences.

   If Columbia and TAMU were to fund the conf bridges how many
institutions would be willing to purchase one or more of these SIP
phones. We would not charge for UCAID use of the conf bridge service.
The phones cost about $550 each.  

   Please email your intent so that we can get back to the vendor.  This
is not a commitment by either your University or UCAID/Columbia/TAMU at
this time.  We are only trying to get and idea of interest.

Walt    




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